The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-03-19

Mr. A. D. Clemens has lately had an arte-
sian we'll bored on his premises in Waverly, for
the purposes of procuring supply Of pure water
for himself and some of his neighbors, their well
water having become unfit for domestic use. He
struck good streams within 100 feet of the surface
but desiring to secure never. failing supply that
would be free from all surface contamination, he
went much deeper and attained the end aimed at.
The Hartford Democrat of last week says
"The criminal docket discloses the fact that since
the beginning of court sixteen cases have been
tried-nine for violating the local option law and
seven for forgery, assault and other ofenses. vi
the sixteen tried there were four convictions
two for selling whisky and two for assaults. This
shows wide difference of opinion between the
grand jury that indicted, and the petit jury that
tried the cases."
The Grand Jury this week investigated the
killing of young Howard Fisher, at Woodberry.
Among those who appeared before the jury was
Miss Mary G. Cowley, the young woman who was
indirectly the cause of the shooting and who was
held in $500 security to appear as witness She
was about leaving for her home in Virginia when
she was arrested She will also have to appear in
Court as q witness against McGlennan, to whom
she was engaged to be married.
The Democrats in the 9th district section
of the Belt formed campaign club a short time
ago with Mr.. John NJ Littig, president Some of
the officers of the club, including the president,
entertained certain ideas about Baltimore county
politics and wanted to run matters to suit them
selves. A large majority of the members enter
tanned different views and when the club met
Wednesday night, Mr.. Littig refused to open the
hall. Those opposed to him then went to another
place and organized with Mr.. VIM. II. Gill as
temporary president, and now there will be two
clubs.
The Baltimore EUening Ne,os continues to
prey upon the local columns of THE UNION and has
not the honesty to credit for anything. Last Sat-
turday's edition of that paper had ten or dozen
locals stolen-that's the word-from our columns
and the same thing occurred with the Sunday
Ne,os. only not to such great extent. Of course
the News is welcome to publish anything it finds
in the columns of The UNION, but we do think
that common honesty should demand of it some
acknowledgment for our labor, which it appro-
pirates Wholesale without so much as saying
''thank you"
County people are very much agitated
just now upon the subject of their public roads,
and not without cause. The same old plan is pur-
sued from year to year, no improvements are made,
and those who suffer in consequence feel that
they are being outrageously imposed upon. What
seems to be wanted are permanent improvements
in the way of piking, &c.-small stretches of road
at time-until finally all the roads, or at least
those most travelled, will be piked and thus per-
manently improved. The road system, as at
present carried out, is simply waste of the
peoples money and they are justly growing in
dgnant in consequence.
Death of DR.. David Sterett Gittings-End
Of Long and Useful Career.-Dr. David S.
Cuttings, one of the oldest and most highly es-
teemed physicians in this State, died at his resi-
dence, near Upper Falls, 11th district of Balti-
more county, on Saturday last in the goth year
of his age. DR.. Cuttings was a familiar figure in
the eastern section of this county and was known
to almost every man, woman and child. In his
younger days he stood at the head of his profess
sion, and even until very few years ago he con-
tinued in active and successful practice, only re-
taxing his efforts to relieve the sick and distressed
when his great weight of years compelled him in
some measure to do so. He was always kind and
generous and had warm place in the hearts of
the people whom he had served long and so faith
fully.
DR.. David Sterett Cuttings was born August 18th,
1897, and was married to Juliana West Howard,
the daughter of Colonel John Beale Howard, who
was born on September 26th, 1898. She died on
January 10th, 1847. The father of David Sterett
Cuttings was Richard Cuttings, who married Polly,
the daughter of John Sterett, and John Setrett's
wife was Deborah, the daughter of John Ridgey,
the eldest son of the original proprietor of the
Hampton estate. Richard Cuttings was the
son of James Cuttings, who married the daugh-
ter of DR.. George Buchanan, one of the founders
of Baltimore. The wife of DR.. Buchanan was
Elanor Rogers, and he was the owner of the Druid
Hill estate, now Druid Hill Park. DR.. Buchanan
was the father of General Andrew Buchanan, the
lieutenant of Baltim ore county during the Revol-
ution, and afterwards Chief Judge of the county
court; also of William Buchanan, one of the first
Registers of Wills of Baltimore city and county,
and grandfather of James M. Buchanan, late
United States minister to Denmark, and great
grandfather of Adm raj Franklin Buchanan, of
the Confederate States navy, the commander of
the ironclad Virginia in the fight with the Monitor
in Hampton Roads, in March, 1862. The brother
of Richard Cuttings was James Cuttings, who was
the father of Lambert Cuttings and the late John
s. Cuttings. Thetw brothers, Richard and James,
married two sisters, the daughters of John and
Deborah Sterett, so that DR.. David Sterett Git
tings and John Sterett Cuttings were doubly first
cousins. DR.. David Sterett Cuttings was educated
at Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa, and was
graduated in medicine at the Maryland Univer-
sity. He then went abroad to complete- bis nro
pitfalls of London, Paris and Edinburgh. In the
year 1920 he returned to the United States, and
took up the practice of his profession in Baltimore
county, where he died. Of the surviving children
are Mrs. Brierley, widow of the late DR.. Wake
Brierley, of California Mrs. Joseph Cox, Mrs.
Lindsay, wife of DR.. Lindsey Mrs. William N.
Marye, David Cuttings, of Baltimore county, and
DR.. Howard Cuttings, of Philadelphia. The late
Richard j. Cuttings, who gained distinction at
the bar and who was at one time States Attorney
for Baltimore county, was a son of the deceased.
DR.. Cuttings was married three times, his third
wife, who survives him, being daughter of the
late DR.. David King, prominent physician of
the 18th district, to whom he was married about
fifteen years ago.